Big Gay Longcat reviews Doctor Who: Frontier in Space Episode Three

The Doctor and Jo run away but get recaptured by the mannys and put straight back in their cell. Time for me to increment the imprisoned counter already.

General Williams gives an implicit warning to the President that she will be replaced if she does not declare war on the Draconians. This kind of thing makes him look a lot like like a baddy, and even more so when he decides to use the mind probe on the Doctor. 

But the Doctor outwits it by telling the General nothing but the truth so the mind probe doesn't do anything to him, and eventually it blows itself up, just as the Doctor predicted last episode.

The President decides to send the Doctor to the "Lunar Penal Colony" on the moon, which is full of members of the "Peace Party" who are all there "forever" (more evidence that the Earth Federation is an evil one like in Blakes 7 rather than a good one like in Star Trek). The Governor there tells the Doctor and other prisoners

"There's one rule here: you do as you're told. If you behave yourselves, you'll be reasonably treated, but you have no rights and there is no means of escape. You'll do well to remember that you're here for the rest of your lives."

Oh noes, that last bit means they won't let the Doctor out even if he regenerates.

General Williams and the President have found criminal records for the Doctor and Jo, these have clearly been faked up (using Space Photoshop?) by "the Commissioner from Sirius 4" because when he comes in the Commissioner is revealed to be...

The Master!

Well, this story just got much better. General Williams was being made to look so obviously like the secret baddy behind the Ogrons that it is a neat twist for it really to have been the Master all along. He wants the President and the General to let him take the Doctor and Jo to Sirius 4 with him, and he says, with irony that is evident only to the viewers at home,

"You may rest assured, General Williams, they will be perfectly safe with me."

The Doctor is already trying to escape from the moon, but hears that nobody has escaped before and those that tried ended up ded. These scenes would be more dramatic if the Doctor and his fellow prisoners weren't drinking from sippy cups at the same time.

Jo is still on Earth, and gets visited in her cell by the Master. His first line to her is

"Penny for them, Miss Grant?"

almost as though they were old friends.

Jo: "How did you know we were here in the first place?"

The Master: "Well, after they'd attacked the cargo ships, the Ogrons returned to their planet, taking their loot with them. Now imagine my surprise - and my delight - when I found that they'd brought me the Doctor's TARDIS."

Jo: "And why are you taking us with you?"

The Master: "Oh, need you ask? How could I leave two dear friends in such dire straits?"

In the end Jo agrees to go with the Master, almost as though they were old friends.

The Doctor tells some of his fellow prisoners what has happened to him, until one of them believes him. He is Professor Dale, who is planning an escape of his own - right now! Despite only having just met the Doctor, he already believes his story so much that he lets the Doctor in on the escape attempt.

The Professor and the Doctor go to where there are two spacesuits, but 

because there is no air for them. The manny who pretended to be helping the Professor, Cross (I mean his name is Cross, not that he is cross, although he may well be that too), then locks them in the room. The Doctor realises something is wrong before the Professor does and shouts at him

"They're depressurising. Don't you understand, man? They're pumping out the air!"

Cliffhanger!

Imprisoned counter: Doctor 2, Jo 1

Running total: Doctor 7, Jo 6